January 7 - Standing Out


Gavin Newsom (b. 1967) delivers his inauguration speech (always the first Monday in January after elections) as the 40th Governor of California, delivering a message of hope that resonates nationally -- as it should in these most trying federall times...


The weather lets up a bit -- on the 7th day of spring, highest for the season thus far at 59 (warmest since late fall's same on December 30) -- and then gets back to the business of potential precip.:


a paltry .01 inch for the interval (6.88 since July 1)


an errand night, and throughout the time period edit page 21 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act IV, begin


The Decameron, Op. 289
     100 Novels for Voices and Instruments, after the work (1353) of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
          Tenth Day / Novel VI - King Charles the Old falls in love with two young maidens

and compose a second system for

Broke Dance Suite, Op. 290
     IVb2. Danse Banane Sauvage (Freud)